Re: [Python-Dev] 2.6 branch in Mercurial?

2016-11-01 Thread Skip Montanaro
Cool, thanks to Ned and Zach. Hg never gets allocated very many neurons in my brain. Then there's the whole brain-in-neutral aspect of things which makes me fail to consider there might be help and/or closed branches which aren't displayed... Sorry for the distraction. Skip ___

[Python-Dev] Implementing (parts of) copy module in C

2016-11-01 Thread Rasmus Villemoes
First, apologies if this isn't the appropriate list; I trust I'll be nudged in the right direction. I'm using (and contributing to) an application which spends a significant part of its startup time calling copy.deepcopy, so I thought I'd try to write a C extension to speed this up. Aside from avo

Re: [Python-Dev] Benchmarking Python and micro-optimizations

2016-11-01 Thread Ludovic Gasc
Hi, Thanks first for that, it's very interesting. About to enrich benchmark suite, I might have a suggestion: We might add REST/JSON scenarios, because a lot of people use Python for that. It isn't certainly not the best REST/JSON scenarios, because they have a small payload, but better than nothi

[Python-Dev] Implementing (parts of) copy module in C

2016-11-01 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Rasmus Villemoes writes: > First, apologies if this isn't the appropriate list; I trust I'll be > nudged in the right direction. Given the relatively advanced state of patch, I doubt that this is the *wrong* list. However, you would probably benefit from posting to python-l...@python.org to co